The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-07-24

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sided. Delegates from all parts Of the
United States and Canada were preeent.
The brass and iron works of the Benton
& King Co., which located ct Boonton some
three weeks ago and has since been en-
gagged in fitting up its establishment, com.
menced running in full force on Monday.
1t is reported that the Delaware, Lacka-
! wan-s 4 Western Rsilroad Company have
notified their passenger and freight con-
dnctors that after J1jy 1st they will be
given an increase of five dollars per month
in thslr wages.
A Germaa workingmsn's Union was
formed on Sunday at Elizabeth. Its organ
izers for the most part are men who have
| recently withdrew from the Knights o. La
bsr. They viii analgamate with the New
Jersey Federation Of Labo1, located at
| Newark.
At the National CONVENTION OF Harm ess-
| makers in New York, o. 81. Fairchild, of
| Newark, WAS elected treasurer for the en-
suing year. Aftsz the transaction Of all
the busin ess before the convention, it ad-
| journed TO "teassemble in Baltimore, in
July, 1888.
The Philadelphia Record says: Sixteen
glass factories, newly constructed, will start
up in September, having 206 pots, OF which
100 are for wiadov glass, 20 for fint, so for
table ware and for green glass. 1t is like
| ly that several of the wiadow-glass fac
tories in New Jersey will remain idle next
year.
All disturbing questions between the
asssn-slass blowers Of New Jersey and the
mAnufsctursrs &ss now amisably seeded Eel
| the esmiAG seAeen, and both sides feel ~.
~ ~ A - q r
elsM factories nsxt septenbss tAss will be
ne disputes whatever to settle 81 there were
last year.
Fvsety seven leather manufseserses Of
KsvRk have decided to quie vsehiAs in
hides sfbw Sely 30th, because - much
lsashee is Aads mp thst tLsy are working
without rsspisg any preSt. Ieis naid that
| this AsAiea means IN epsn 2ght vita the
XnisAn Of Labor, and that in eass Of the
| vsssnptien Of verk ii will be With Aen-
| uRien Msn.
| The old iron mine known 90 the Sher-
mAn Nine, On the nountaia above Sparta,
IA Sussex osaAty, has been rs-opsnsd By
Cooper j Kswitt. This mine was closed
| for Q leng time, o. the ore was not con-
sidsrsd valuable enough to warrant work
ing it; but large gang of men have been
put at work, and q rich vein has been
| fo1nd. They expect to ship fifty TENS
dsy to their furnaces.
About eleven hundred coal train hands
and coal handlers employed by the Phlla-
| delphla and Reading Railroad, ct Port
Richmond, went on strike recently, be-
cause of an order issued by the company re-
| curing an examination of the employees
for color blindness. Subsequently. . COM
| mittee, representing the men, had con-
| ference with the General Superintendent.
| aud the matter was settled in q manner sat
isfactory to both sides.
Among the subjects proposed by the Leg
| islative Committee of the New Jersey Fed
GRAFTON of Trades and Labor unions for
| consideration at the seventh annual con-
gress, it is designed to make the employ
mept Of Pinkertop's men and the increase
| of school accommodations leading issue
at the polls. The employment OF Eve
| deputy inspectors of factories. the forma-
| ton of trades assemblies in cities with
three or more trades or labor unions; an
/ observance of the labor legal holiday; and
additional factory legislation will also be
urged.
The semi-annual report of the secretary
and treasurer of the Morris and Essex
| Railroad Employees Mutual benefit associ-
| and it shows the financial affairs to be in
4 good condition, there being a balance in
| the bank Of IS 664 IA The total member
ship up to July l. 1857, was 1895, de-
crease of six since January /, five of
whom have died since January 1; lat have
| been elected members. and four have been
reinstated, while ffty-two have been
| dropped from the roll.
Complaints are being made by number
| of fruit growers on the line of the Camden
and atlantic Railroad of the methods en-
pIoyed by nearly all the New York com
| mission merchants to whom their fruit has
been sent during the present season, to
| prevent their successful competition with
growers on the New Jersey Southern road.
They charge that they are the victims of a
boycott by the middle men who receive
and sill the fruit shipped by the members
of the Fruit Growers Union, of HaMmon-
ton, most of whom send their produce to
New York via the New Jersey Southern
| branch of the Reading Railroad, thereby
giving that road the benefit of an almost
absolute monopoly of the carrying trade.
When the forty-fye stonecutters arrived
at Fordyce's stoneyard in Newark to COM
mence work the other day, they were in
formed that the Stonecutters' URion had
adopted resolution forbldding the mem
bers of that union to 60 to work until the
strike of the masons and brlcklayers in
Hoboken should be adjusted. This gave
rise to rumor, which was industriously
circulated in this city, that lookout had
taken place ct Fordycs's stoneyard, and re-
suited in the hasty call ora meeting of the
Journsymen st necutters' Union, last eve
ming. At this meeting, which was held at
the American House, at the corner of
Broad street and Norris and Essex Rail-
road avenue, the resolution previously
adopted calling upon the filters employed
upon some buildings in course of erection
in Hudson to quit work was rescinded, and
| a nlnaittsa Was an nointad to inyastiaata